"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." --Robert Louis Stevenson

“A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition. . . .”
—Marilla M. Ricker, attorney, abolitionist, humanitarian, suffragist, and freethinker in "Science Against Creeds," I Am Not Afraid Are You? (1917)

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." --Robert Louis Stevenson

“A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition. . . .”
—Marilla M. Ricker, attorney, abolitionist, humanitarian, suffragist, and freethinker in "Science Against Creeds," I Am Not Afraid Are You? (1917)

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." --Robert Louis Stevenson

“A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition. . . .”
—Marilla M. Ricker, attorney, abolitionist, humanitarian, suffragist, and freethinker in "Science Against Creeds," I Am Not Afraid Are You? (1917)

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." --Robert Louis Stevenson

“A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what makes trouble. Nothing is so worthless as superstition. . . .”
—Marilla M. Ricker, attorney, abolitionist, humanitarian, suffragist, and freethinker in "Science Against Creeds," I Am Not Afraid Are You? (1917)